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Title: Old and new London : a narrative of its history, its people, and its places
Year: 1873 (1870s)
Authors: Thornbury, Walter, 1828-1876
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Publisher: London : Cassell, Petter, & Galpin
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great a bloton the lectureship, he determined to root out, andtherefore he not only refused to renew the lease,but turned out the tenants, keeping the houseempty and himself with a greatly reduced income,until he could find a respectable person willing totake it. and in 1868 he was nominated to the Deanery ofI-ichfield, which he held till his decease. His son,the Rev. Weldon Champneys, succeeded him inthe vicarage of St. Pancras, but resigned it in 1874. From St. Pancras Church, a walk of a fewminutes, in a southward direction, by way ofWoburn Place and Tavistock Square, brings us oncemore to Guildford Street, the southern boundary ofthe parish of St. Pancras. The Foundling Hospital,which stands on the north side of this street,but just within the limits of the parish of which wehave been treating, having been unavoidably passedby in our previous perambulation in this neigli-bourhood, will form the subject of the followingchapter. foundling Hospital.) OUTSIDE LIMIT OF ST. PANCRAS. 555
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35f> OLD AND NEW LONDON. (Foundling Hospital CHAPTER XXVILTHE FOUNDLING HOSPITAL AND NEIGHBOURHOOD. The helpless young that kiss no mothers handShe gives in public families to live,A sight to gladden Heaven.—TVwwwtf-v. Establishment of the Hospital by Captain Coram in Hatton Garden—Its Removal to Lambs Conduit Fields—Parliamentary Grant to the Hospital—Wholesale Admission of Children—Tokens for the Identification of Children deposited in the Hospital—Withdrawal of the ParliamentaryGrant—Rules and Regulations-Form of Petition for the Admission of Children—Baptism of the Infants—Wet-nurses—Education of theChildren—Expenditure of the Establishment—Extracts from the Report of the Royal Commission—Origin of the Royal Academy of Arts-Hogarths Liberality to the Institution—His March of the Guards to Finchley Common—The Picture Gallery—The Chapel—HandelsBenefactions to the Hospital—Lambs Conduit Fields—Biographical Notice of Captain Coram—Hunter Stre

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